Board of Directors
The Board of Directors at Sodrugestvo is comprised of five Directors: two independent ones and three Board members who participate in planning and development of business strategies, but who do not engage in the day-to-day management of the organization.
This is a group of real professionals, who have skill sets in various areas and are internationally recognized specialists in such areas as trade or banking. They have all been invited to the Company based on their impeccable reputation, integrity and experience. The independent Directors are also members of the Audit Commission and are heads of the Risk Committee.
Independent Directors of the Board
Members of the Board of Directors:
Alexander V. Lutsenko, Chairman of the Board
Elena A. Lutsenko
Stéphane Frappat, Chief Executive Officer
Stéphane (b.1967), a French national, has worked in Russia since 1990, when he set up an office for Avomark, a French consulting company. Although trained as a civil servant at Science-Po in Bordeaux (88), Stephane has spent most of his carreer in the corporate sector as CFO for Burlington Holdings (a leading real-estate service provider in Moscow), General Director of Aventis Animal Nutrition for the CIS, and eventually founder and managing partner of Camden Partners, a corporate financial consultancy. Stéphane also held various positions in the Rhone-Poulenc and Aventis French offices,as well as the position of COO of Sodrugestvo in 2001-2002, and later served as Board member of the Company. He speaks fluent French, English, Russian and Portuguese.
Philippe de Lapérouse
Mr. de Lapérouse (b. 1953 in Paris, France), a dual citizen of France and the U.S.A., received his BA degree from Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut) in 1975 and his MBA degree from Darden School of Business/The University of Virginia in 1979. After working in the financial services industry, first as a Summer Associate at Salomon Brothers (1978), then as an Associate at Warburg Paribas Becker, Inc.(1979-82) in New York City and Newbury, Rosen & Company(1982-83) in Boston, Massachusetts, Philippe began his 25-year career in international agribusiness with Ralston Purina in its global livestock/poultry feed and pet food business where he held different positions such as Plant Manager in Barcelona, Spain, Director of Pet Food Marketing, Director of Health Products Division and Director of the New Business Division in Paris France, and eventually Managing Director at the company’s headquarters in St Louis, Missouri. In 1994, Philippe was named Vice-President of the Fund for Large Enterprises (FLER) in Russia, a direct equity investment fund chartered and financed by USAID and OPIC to finance private ventures in Russia. He 1996, he joined Bunge North America, first in international marketing and then as a Director of Business Development, reporting to the President and CEO. Philippe left Bunge in 2003 to establish Vanikoro Advisory LLC, a consultancy advising companies on global expansion strategies. Since 2006, he has been Managing Director of the Global Food, Agribusiness and Biofuels practice at HighQuest Partners, a strategic advisory and management consulting firm serving Fortune 500, Global 1000 and emerging technology companies, investors and organizations in the food, agribusiness, biofuels (ethanol, biodiesel and biomass) and clean technology sectors.
He speaks fluent English, French and Spanish, as well as some Russian.
Raymond Schadeck
Mr. Schadeck (born 1955, Luxembourg) – a Luxembourg national, graduated from Universite Loise Pasteur de Strasbourg, France and received Master degree in Economics (1979) and Degree in Law (1981). Certified auditor (1985).
He began his career with Andersen Luxembourg in 1981 as consultant and was appointed as CEO of this company in 1999. After integration of Andersen Luxembourg into Ernst&Young Luxembourg he was appointed CFO E&Y Luxembourg (2002) and CFO of the Continental Western European Area of the E&Y network (2005). In 2006 he was appointed CEO E&Y Luxembourg.
Since June 2010 Mr. Schadeck is Freelance consultant mainly supporting the Minister of Economic Affairs and Foreign Trade.
Mr. Schadeck is member of the different professional associations/organisations and Board of Directors.
Fluent speaks Luxembourgish, French, German and English Married, 2 children.